Manifolding sales-book.



PATENTBD 00T. s, 1907. A. L. SCHULTZ. MANI-FOLDING SALES BooK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.9. 1906.

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UNITED sTATEs ALVA L. SCHULTZ, OF POCAHONTAS, IOWA.

MANIFOLDING SALES-BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1907.

Application filed August 9, 1906. Serial No. 329,870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALvA L. SCHULTZ, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pocahontas, in the county of Pocahontas and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Manifolding Sales-Book, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to books, and more particularly to order-books and the like. Its principal objects are to provide the cover with a secure separable mounting for a filler and with a convenient holder for a carbon sheet. Y i

With these ends in view, my invention consists in the various features and combinations hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cover, to which one embodiment of my invention is applied; Fig. 2 is a partial longitudinal section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

C designates a cover, consistingof a rear section 10 and a suitable connected front section ll. The former section carries a socket, which preferably consists of a plate 12 having bent ends 13 secured to the cover, the intermediate portion being spaced therefrom. This plate is provided with projections 14, here shown as two in number, formed by depressing or indenting the metal. A filler 16, consisting of a suitable number of sheets bound together, is provided with a tongue 17, conveniently of paste-board adapted to enter the socket and having openings 17a which the projections 14 may enter to lock the filler in place against accidental displacement, the yield of the plate, however, permitting its removal when the proper pressure is applied. At the opposite or lower edge of the rear cover section are two hinge sockets 18 having their ends secured to the cover by rivets 19. Each socket has a cylindrical portion 20 which may be engaged by angular ends of opposite arms 2l, preferably formed of spring metal and lying just outside the edges ofthe filler. At the outer or free ends 21 of these arms, which are here shown as of somewhat increaseddiameter, is carried a clamp 22 for a carbon or copying sheet 23. This clamp preferably consists of a bar 24 having end portions 25 surrounding the arms and being conveniently soldered thereto. At the inner side of this connectingbar is a second clamp-bar 26 pivoted upon one of the arms at 27 to revolve about it, and having an offset portion 251 extending over the connecting bar and having at its opposite extremity a catch which, as here illustrated, is in the form of a hook 28, the engagement and disengagement of which is permitted by the yield in the arms.

In use, the cover is provided with a filler by pressing the tongue of the latter into the socket until its openings are engaged by the projections. A sheet of carbon paper is then fixed in the clamp by releasing the movable bar, folding the end of the paper over the rela' tively-fixed bar, and clamping it thereon by again pressing down the first-named bar until its hook springs over the arm. The book may now be used in the ordidary way, except that my improved holder for the carbon sheets enables this to be transferred from one leaf to the next by the user operating the arms without danger of soiling the fingers or injuring the sheet by handling. 1t will be evident that both the filler and carbon sheet may be readily renewed, but while in use are held securely in place.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A book comprising a hack and a cover hinged thereto, a filler, means on the back for holding the ller, socket members at the corners of the back at the end remote from the cover, arms having angular ends engaging the sockets, a plate connecting the free ends of the arms, a second plate hinged to one of the arms and having a catch for engaging the other arm, said plate being provided with an offset portion adapted to overlie said rst-named plate whereby to form a clamp therewith for holding a sheet of carbon.

2. A book comprising a back and a cover hinged thereto, a filler, means on the back for holding a filler, socket members at the corners of the back at the end remote from the cover, arms having angular ends engaging the sockets, a

plate connecting the free ends of the arms, and a second plate hinged to one of the arms and having a portion adapted to overlie said rst-named plate whereby to form a clamp therewith for holding,r a sheet of carbon.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALVA L. SCHULTZ.

Witnesses:

H. W. BISSELL, C. M. REDICK. 

